The Cleaning Cloths
Good subjects don’t have to have the grandeur of El Capitan or the glamour of a professional models portrait. They are often the little things all around us, the things the non photographer sees but never sees, subjects created by happenstance of light, color and pattern. For those that are aware of the images all around us are those people that have the eye.
This simple yet dramatic composition if something we have all seen and yet never thought of photographing, a humble subject that is there for the taking. The strong cross light has added drama and form to the patterns of draped fabric and texture to the stucco wall in the background. The placement of the cloths to the right is nicely balanced by the negative space to the left. The photo-artist has taken the image to its bear essence.
There is a muter green cast to the image that the photographer may wish to eliminate. The off color is so pronounce that it may be intentional but it could be interpreted as a poor print. It is the photo-artists call if correction is required.
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May 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Hi Jim, first of all, I appreciate your comment very much; on the other hand, I wish to confirm that the green cast is 100% on purpose. I filtered the original image experimenting on different casts, trying to obtain the feeling I wanted, which was precisely of a washed out environment. I didn’t want the cloths to look typically as how they looked with the original lighting. The wall behind, if white, proved too boring to my eye. A bluesish cast didn’t either work for me, too poetical; then I experimented with green and some warmth in the picture, and the result came out to be very much what I had expected. It gives me the urban feeling of something old, and a little bit rusty. My best regards, Jorge
May 16th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
LOVE the green tones. I feel it made the wow factor for me. Nice choice.